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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Sixteen Years Hence By Bkknako Hampton Sixteen long: years had passed since the famous High School das of 1914 of West Frankfort was disbanded. The class consisted of four very energetic and enthusiastic students. They were rightfully called “The Big Four, all of whom worked co-ordinately among themselves, comparing and contrasting efforts in order to reach the goal in limited time. The members of the class were widely separated and scattered to the four corners of the earth, each one situated as his or her vocation demanded. Each individual was doing the work for which he was most talented. Cur great country had changed internally in an infinite number of ways. The Panama Canal, one of the greatest engineering feats ever accomplished by mortal and which was finished the year after our graduation, has been one of the greatest occasions for controversy between us and all foreign nations aud is now being realized by all nations as one of the greatest economizers of marine transportation A great religious war had beeu fought which resulted in the union of all churches to form one large moral institution; the socialistic crowd was still being increased by those w'ho uever expect to have anything; woman suffrage had dominated every state; the Republican party was still divided; the business man was now preaching “High Tariff. the administrations had all been democratic from the time of Woodrow Wilson, sixteen long years hence. 1, while sitting in the White House, assisted by my cabinet, assuming my responsible duties presiding over the several states, absorbed by the different problems concerning the great Civil War at
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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY (CONTINUED hand and the tatrVari which arcotap ay it. van suddenly distracted from my work when I seemed to hear the name Nell Karnes spoken by one of my assistants. He and the ones assembled around him seemed deeply interested in something. Just at that time my mind ran back to dear old High School days at West Frankfort about sixteen years ago. and for a moment or so. one thing after another came to my mind at random placiilfe me back in that old room with our dear,,ever-ready and prudent teac.herR standing before us. Hut being very anxious to know how she had been served in those long years. I listened attentively. The conversation ran like this: “I wonder who that Nell Karnes can he. The report says she used to be a pupil at West Frankfort High School in Southern Illinois somewhere. She was very apt and a well balanced, two sided maid who enjoyed the aesthetic as well as i the business side of life, but is now one of the greatest avtatresses in the world. The paper states she has made a ten thousand mile i?:ght without rest; has turned four flipB in midair at once; has flown topsy-turvy for sixty miles; and is preparing to make a flight across the Atlantic. She has won International fame as an aviatress. She. being a natural physicist in her long school career, is ra pable to. and will, make improvements in the air machines that will be highly appreciated by the Wright Brothers and all the French and Germcn aviators. The paper accounts for her selected vocation partly by her being a little topsy-turvy, flippy and flighty while in school hut this is only theoretical. Nevertheless, she has the peculiarity uncoramonness and attractiveness that is present with all aviatresses and is looked upon by the people as a sort of superhuman, unnatp reck-
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